Act like God
View yourself as no more than scum
View yourself as no one, as a scum
Scum that no one cares about
Scum that people only deign to look at because they’ve still some benefit to obtain from you
An animal to devour, an animal to mate with
Act like god
As though every action of yours is of cosmic consequence
As though it’s GODLY in quality
As though it’s as good as ANYTHING HAS EVER BEEN
As though your life depended on it
As though the world depended on it
People will love you or hate you,
Or perhaps plain ignore you
those animals
If they ignore you — then you’re blessed
Because you’ll have no delusions of importance
You’ll sooner realise that you are as good as dead
When you’re dead, no one will care about you, stop deluding yourself
But
if people love you — you’re mislead into believing that there’s something intrinsically good about you
It was never about you
It’s only what you do
It’s only what you do
Only that is real
Nothing is constant but change
You’re the change you’re engendering
And
THAT is when you’re GOD
THAT is when you’re god
When you give utmost care to everything you do
Utmost love
Utmost respect
Utmost attention to everything you lay your eyes on
That is divine
That is god-like
And of course what you do can have no spectators
Others looking is absolutely unrelated, a distraction really
It’s not about you, it’s about what you do
But it’s NOT about what others think you do — it’s about WHAT YOU DO
Anything but THE THING is a distraction
It’s really best when no one interferes with your work, no one is looking
For at least then it’s pure and genuine
Then it’s JUST work, JUST art
This OF COURSE doesn’t mean that you won’t be doing things with others
And that consensus among you won’t be relevant
And that your work’s survival won’t be often predicated on others finding it useful
It will
And then you can include those necessary actors as PART of the “WE”, the group
Except there’s really no subject,
There’s no YOU, there’s no I, there’s no WE
There’s only THE work
And their value is instrumental
It’s all slave to the work
It’s all slave to the vision
It’s all slave to the vision
You’re all slaves
You’re all scum
You’re not a “great team”
You’re just LABOURERS
Only the work matters
Only DOING YOUR BEST matters
I mean it
You should think NOTHING about yourself
And about your “accomplishments”
You should really only try to do your best today
Be serious about it, of course = you will have to REVIEW your outcomes over the timeframe, you can’t just wing it
But once it’s reviewed — it only serves to inform you how to STILL do better
…I wrote about it here:
“You Are Only What You Did TODAY”
But I can’t stress it enough
Blessed are those who are NO ONE — yet do their best
Cursed are those who think they are SOMEONE — yet do whatever
Yet do meh
Cursed are ALL those who think they are someone — for they harbour a poisonous delusion
Cursed are all those who give it less than everything — for they are missing on the only thing that life’s about
There are degrees of it
Some live only for their feeble illusions of significance
Others merely relish every now and then looking over the edifice of their transient identity
Others still barely notice themselves to exist
And many of the latter only barely notice the thing that’s in front of them, the work that they’ve to do
And that too is absolutely pathetic and a waste of life
I told you to ACT like god
You must be GOD in how you act
How well and carefully you do everything
How upright you are
How profoundly attentive to every detail
Including, OBVIOUSLY, the TRUTH
Which is not just an instrument of self-righteousness, which is a fucking delusion
But merely an impersonal attribute of reality, and your moment-to-moment engagement with it
So I uphold and then double down on my view,
It really is a wonderful thing to view yourself as no more than a scum
I’m not even hyperbolic,
You’re still GOD if you give all of your pride and attention and energy into your WORK
If you do god’s work
Not in delusional religious sense
But in the sense of ABSOLUTE EXCELLENCE and COMMITMENT and SERIOUSNESS
and sense of APPRECIATION for the GIFT OF EXISTENCE